‘Maybe he doesn’t see me’ (1 photo)

A very large american crocodile hung around for a long time staring down this turtle (I believe it is a red bellied-cooter?), who continued to sit around on the log. I don’t know what was going through the turtle’s mind -maybe he knew the croc was older and mostly toothless and got cocky, or maybe he figured he hadn’t really been seen and his best chances were to just hold still. Either way, it worked out for the turtle in the end!